A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Horror and Hard Rock at the Fringe festival this summer
The touring company of Spider Baby the musical will be joining this year’s Fringe festival in Toronto Ontario. Spider Baby the musical is based on Jack Hill’s cult classic (Spider Baby) and is gaining a cult following of its own. Toronto is stop two on their international tour before going on to an eight week run in Los Angeles CA.
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(TORONTO) All good things in life come in twos…just ask 2-Man No-Show.
2-Man No-Show returns this summer to the Toronto Fringe Festival to debut the exciting sequel to their award winning first show.
2-Man No-Show-2 is the tag team duo of Isaac Kessler and Ken Hall. Combining percussion, character/sketch comedy, physical theatre and performance art, they tell the story of two underdogs reaching beyond the unimaginable. Kessler and Hall play together with a fraternal chemistry that involves everything from singing, dancing and high-flying physical feats.
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From Press Release
Like Bees and Honey… Things are about to get sticky…
Pretty Little Liars Productions is proud to present a bold new work by emerging Canadian playwright Neale Kimmel at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
In Like Bees and Honey, we are welcomed into the Woodard family home, in rural Manitoba. Becca, Gary, Melissa and Ruth are siblings that inhabit the house. Becca’s daughter Deborah lives there also. Thanks to a dead body found in the compost a couple of farms over, the Woodard family now has another person in their home- Officer Boyd. He and his partner, Officer Robinson, are sent to search the property, as it is believed that the murder suspect may be hiding in their shed. When Gary leaves with Robinson to complete the search, Boyd is left to keep watch of the sisters. Along the twisty path of this Gothic tale, we discover that there isn’t anything quite like a brother’s love, that Becca’s baby is starting to smell, and Officer Boyd learns that you don’t say ‘no’ to the Woodard hospitality.
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From Press Release
“Snakes are like women:
don’t be afraid of ‘em and they won’t strike you.”
DEAD CAT BOUNCE is an urban comedy about winning, losing and life on the street, performed in the heart of Kensington Market, right on the street.
A stock trader falls for an indie blues singer who hangs out with a wily old homeless man known in the neighbourhood as The Mayor. Thomas plays by the numbers, calculates the risks and works his system, which is called the dead cat bounce. Amara is a free spirit who “can’t hold down a job, drinks too much, and is a singer!” Can The Mayor bring this unlikely couple together with his ramblings about everything from snakes to Billy Jack movies? Or has he some other insidious scheme in mind?
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From Press Release
I think it’d be cool to maybe jam with you sometime…
or something.
Apocryphal Productions Presents
Fester
a brand new work by
Kristofer Van Soelen
When Andrew and Kris play their music together, something happens. Whatever that something is, it takes on a life of its own, and Andrew struggles to deal with it as it leaks into each of his relationships, and challenges his structured life and somewhat average aspirations.
Fester, is a new play written by Kristofer Van Soelen and assembled in conjunction with several of his third year classmates at George Brown Theatre School. This show will be the first professional showing for each of the ensemble members, and the show is filled with original songs that highlight the major themes of the piece.